Emotions Quotes

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

~ Tom Stoppard

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

~ Sharon Salzberg

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

~ Mariella Frostrup

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

~ John Green

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

~ Franz Liszt

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

~ Jacques Barzun

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

~ Tariq Ramadan

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

~ Salman Rushdie

I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

~ John Robinson

I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.

~ Chantal Sutherland

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

~ Bertrand Russell

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

~ Gary Zukav

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

~ Kiesza

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

~ Martin Seligman

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

~ Margot Kidder

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

~ Dalai Lama

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

~ Adrian Lyne

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

~ Sigmund Freud

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

~ Balthus

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

~ Jeff Buckley

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

~ Michael Greger

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

~ Nana Mouskouri

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

~ Kimberly Elise

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

~ Jeff Gordon

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

~ Marc Webb

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

~ Eminem

The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.

~ Salva Kiir Mayardit

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

~ John Mcenroe

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

~ Lynn Coady

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

~ Curtis Jackson

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

~ Trevor Jackson